Another week of “non-funny” political news…this is getting old. Looking at silly government stupidity is a lot more fun!

This week I have a show for you that is duplicated across 4 sites…JuicyMaters, Common Sense Conversation, and Haylestorm Interactive, along with being here at Cantankerous Old Coots. It’s not that I’m too lazy to do separate shows this week…though that IS an incentive…it is that it is a message everyone who uses the internet needs to be familiar with.

Anyway…some of you might have noticed many sites on the internet were protesting something called “SOPA” Wednesday. Some sites like Wikipedia were completely gone for the day. Some sites, like da Coots, had an opening page about the protest that visitors could click through to get to the site. And then, there were site owners who did nothing. Ralph, Justin, and I felt the issue was important enough to take Coots dark. Here is why:

Bob comes to us with a skeptical attitude and a full cup of Cantankerousness.
He also writes about homesteading and yurts over at JuicyMaters.com and rants about politics at Common-Sense-Conversation.com
Most of the time, though, you'll find him at HayleStorm.net, cranking out great websites for clients OR writing tutorials teaching them to build their own sites.

Well folks we have done it, we actually recorded an interview with Bob! We did record with video, but the video didn’t turn out very good. there is still a video but it is not live, unless you want to have an epileptic seizure. Let me know if you want the raw video, and get a pillow so you don’t hurt yourself during the seizure. So enjoy either in a static video or as an audio, both are downloadable! (It takes a minute for the video to load, please be patient!)

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Click here to download the audio only version in wonderful MP3! (right click and save as…you know the drill)

Well now, here are the notes and links of things that we talked about.

After that came Dr. WordPress, Dave Doolin. He has several sites but the one we talked about is at http://website-in-a-weekend.net It is a great site to learn about wordpress and getting your own blog set up.

Warren G. Harding was mentioned as a president that Bob admires, *HERE* is the Wikipedia page. *Addendum* We were wrong. Warren G. Harding was president in 1920 but not the guy that Bob admires. The real admiree was Hardings Vice President and later President Calvin Coolidge. Click *HERE* for his wikipedia page.

If you want to know more about the No Fly List, you can click *HERE* for the Wikipedia page, or you can go to http://www.no-fly-list.com and see if you are on the list too.

I am really excited to have a guest post here on Cantankerous Old Coots. It seems so long since there has been any activity from my fingers that hasn’t included building a site for an actual paying customer that this really does seem like Ralph Carlson blog part 2. But, Ralph is in Rome trying to walk in the footsteps of Caesar and hopefully miss out on the end of that story. Ralph has traveled a lot over the past couple of years, this is his second time to Italy, and he spent Christmas in Buenos Aries. One of these days he is just going to stay somewhere and we will get vague tweets and requests for ransom money.

But I digress. Again. Where is this whole blogging thing going? I am not sure I hate the world enough to be as cantankerous as I need to be. Living in my little bubble of ignorance is great, but not as far as a good rant is concerned. Sure Bob keeps me abreast of the Gestapo tactics that the government of the good old USA is adopting, and the Stalinistic tactics of the NSA, but I feel that it is more Bob’s purview to write on those things. I am too busy getting ready to build a bunker in the mountains.

I have seen what apathy does to a blog. I have seen what furious posting does for this blog. The worst part? They are not that much different. So is blogging dead for me? No. Do I need to prioritize better? Yes. Do I need to keep pumping everything I can into an actual paying job? Yep. I have promised before to write more. I am pretty sure that my writing and a lump of petrified dinosaur crap will get you a wry look and a “Yea, ok. Good luck with that.” response.

The future? Keep building websites for money. Blog when I feel like it. Hope that Ralph doesn’t end up in some Roman orgy jail. Think about doing another podcast. Sleep. I am not sure anymore. My kids are out of school and, well, my brain is fried 3 weeks into it.

Back to work on that other site. That actually pays money. From this point on to be referred to as Stalag 13, without Hogan.